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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1921
Page
20
A sportsman visits a poul terer with plans for a pheasant. The shopman offers sausages instead. The anecdote turns to a quip about telling his wife he shot sausages. The text then shifts to advice about proper equipment for hunting, fishing, and other tasks, praising quality tools and fair prices.
A famed safe cracker known as Mr X can open jammed safes by touch and a wire. Kings and diplomats seek him, including King Victor Emmanuel who watched as his private collection safely emerged unscathed. He has never damaged a safe in his career.
J A Rutledge, an Innesfail farmer, confessed with his wife to setting fire to their Calgary home after soaking the four children’s beds with gasoline to die together rather than be separated by a child welfare society. Rutledge survived with burns while one child was knocked unconscious. he is hospitalized and charged with murder.
In Vienna a temperamental crook who felled his employer's safe found only about 20 crowns and hanged himself, leaving a note that the disappointment after a hard job was more than he could bear. Mexico City reports Francisco Villa, once a noted bandit, reorganized to exploit in Laguna region, claiming wealth of 200,000.
Retired preacher Dr ALN See writes a 200 page history of the northwest Kansas conference, printed on a hand press. Artist Kart Stecher collects and mounts insects from six countries, displayed in a Wichita bank window. Charles DeLeye sculpts stone decorations for his home, including a 127 foot long decorative will and a large arch.
Keegan of Butte Montana endangered life at Yosemite by climbing near Glieler Point. Superintendent Lewis warned that any future such act would lead to arrest. Keegan ignored signs about 8000 feet to the bottom and leaped, nearly dying before a ranger pulled him to safety.
A garbled local notice describes a man Lynelbourg, Wile 5 Breil C. Shaner as father of an eighteenth child and seeks ideas for a name for a nineteenth child. It mentions past naming by former President Woolrow Wilson and references Mr. skin ners request, with unclear dates and details.
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